Dąbie, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Place in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Coat of arms

52°5′19″N 18°49′32″E / 52.08861°N 18.82556°E / 52.08861; 18.82556Country

PolandVoivodeshipGreater PolandCountyKołoGminaDąbieGovernment

• MayorTomasz LudwickiArea

• Total8.86 km² (3.42 sq mi)Population

(31 December 2021^[1])

• Total1,940 • Density220/km² (570/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

62-660

Area code+48 63Vehicle registrationPKLHighways

Voivodeship roads

Websitehttp://www.gminadabie.pl/

Dąbie [ˈdɔmbʲɛ] is a town on the Ner River in central Poland with 1,940 inhabitants as of December 2021.^[1] It is situated in Koło County in Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is located within the historic Łęczyca Land.

History

In the 10th century, the area became part of the emerging Polish state under its first historic ruler Mieszko I. The town was first mentioned in 1232. Municipal status was granted in 1423. It was a royal town, administratively located in the Łęczyca County in the Łęczyca Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland.^[2]

Before World War II, about 1,000 Jews lived in Dąbie.^[3] During the German occupation, they were confined to a ghetto in summer of 1940. Some were sent to forced labor camps, but most were sent directly to Chełmno extermination camp in December 1941 where they were gassed in specially adapted vans.^[4]^[5] Only a few Dąbie Jews survived the war. The Polish resistance was active in the town, and Polish underground press was distributed there.^[6]

Transport

Dąbie is located at the intersection of Voivodeship roads 263 and 473, and the A2 motorway runs nearby, south of the town.

Gallery

Town hall
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Historic building at 1 Maja Street
Evangelical church

References

^ ^a ^b "Local Data Bank". Statistics Poland. Retrieved 2022-07-28. Data for territorial unit 3009044.
^ Atlas historyczny Polski. Województwo sieradzkie i województwo łęczyckie w drugiej połowie XVI wieku. Część I. Mapy, plany (in Polish). Warszawa: Instytut Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1998. p. 3.
^ Alan Heath Synagogue at Dąbie
^ 'The Holocaust', Martin Gilbert, (1986), p.241.
^ Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II, 50–51. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
^ Encyklopedia konspiracji Wielkopolskiej 1939–1945 (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. 1998. p. 178. ISBN 83-85003-97-5.